Professor Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar is Professor and currently the Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. As an expert in survey research, he has directed various national and state level studies conducted by the CSDS. These studies primarily include the ‘National Election Studies’ (NES) 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 and various rounds of bi-annual ‘State of the Nation Survey’. His recent publications include edited volumes titled Indian Youth and Electoral Politics: An Emerging Engagement;Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi: From Caste to Class (edited with Praveen Rai); and Measuring Voting Behaviour in India.
Professor Badri Narayan
Badri Narayan is a Social Historian and Cultural Anthropologist and currently Professor at the G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His wide ranging interests cover culture; memory and politics; contemporary histories; ethnography of marginalized politics; social and anthropological history; Dalit and subaltern issues; and identity formation and the question of power. His recent publications include Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India (2006) and Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation (2009).
